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CONTENTS
Sunday Deadline for Christmas Flowers
Festival of Advent Lessons and Music
Loved Ones' Names in Christmas Bulletin
It's not too late to memorialize or honor loved ones through a donation towards Fourth Church Christmas flowers and garlands!

This Sunday is the last day to make a contribution--giving thanks for those people who are important in our life--and have their names appear in the Christmas worship bulletin.
 
Contributions, which will help decorate the Sanctuary this Advent and Christmas season, can be made online or by completing the Christmas flowers form available in the literature racks.
 
For more information, contact Andrea Miller.  
  
With Cookies-and-Cocoa Reception
This Sunday evening we will gather for one of our beloved seasonal traditions at Fourth Church: the Festival of Advent Lessons and Music.
 
Pastors and members of Fourth Church will read the scripture lessons of Advent, and Fourth Church's Children's, Youth, Chancel, and Morning Choirs will perform anthems of the season. Together we'll sing Advent hymns and anticipate the birth of Jesus Christ. 
 
A festive reception hosted by Women at Fourth and featuring homemade cookies and hot cocoa will follow the service.

Time:
   Sunday, December 10
   6:30 p.m.

Place:
   Sanctuary and Anderson Hall
eclipseFilled Holiday Bags Due December 10
Gifts for Meals Ministry Supper Guests
Thank you to all who have picked up holiday bags to decorate and fill for the 350 guests of Fourth Church Meals Ministry suppers! All 350 bags for this year have been picked up for decorating.

For those who have not yet returned your filled bags, please do so this weekend so that they can be given to supper guests in the days ahead.

Bags can be dropped off at the Meals Ministry Coffee Hour cart this Sunday or at the reception desk on Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
clocksCongregational Meeting This Sunday
An Associate Pastor Recommendation
All members are encouraged to attend the congregational meeting called by Session for this Sunday, December 10 following the 11:00 a.m. service.

At the meeting the Associate Pastor Nominating Committee will present Nanette Sawyer as their recommended candidate for the position of Associate Pastor for Discipleship and Small Group Ministry; the congregation will then have opportunity to vote on that recommendation.

Time:
   Sunday, December 10
   12:00 p.m.

Place:
   Sanctuary
sermonMore Christmas Wishes to Fill
Gifts for Chicago Lights Tutoring Students
A few more Christmas presents are needed for this week's Tutoring holiday parties.
 
If you can help fill the wish of a Chicago Lights Tutoring student, please pick up a wish list during Coffee Hour this Sunday or contact Anne Ellis.
 
giftCandlelit Prayer Vigil
Remembering Those Affected by Violence 
A candlelit prayer vigil for peace will be held this Wednesday, December 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel. On this anniversary week of the Sandy Hooks shooting, we will remember the more than 150,000 Americans who have been killed by gun violence in the five years since that tragedy.

Time:
   Wednesday, December 13
   6:30 p.m.
 
Place:
   Buchanan Chapel 
   
worship Worship This Week
Second Sunday of Advent, December 10, 2017
8:00 a.m.
Communion
Rocky Supinger,  
Associate Pastor

9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Baptisms  
Shannon J. Kershner, 
Pastor  

4:00 p.m.
Jazz Communion
Alex Wirth,
Minister for Evangelism
 
6:30 p.m.
Festival of Advent Lessons and Music     
 
Worship bulletin
for this coming Sunday is available online at www.fourthchurch.org/worship/this-week.html 
 
"News and Opportunities"
is the weekly printed newsletter distributed with the Sunday bulletin and is available online Friday afternoon at www.fourthchurch.org/news/2017/121017no.pdf 
 
Sermons
from previous weeks are posted online at www.fourthchurch.org/sermons  
 
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Concerts at Fourth Church
All concerts are free unless ticket information is noted.
 
Sunday, December 10
A Festival of Advent Lessons and Music
6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary 
 
Friday, December 15
Bach and Beethoven Ensemble
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel   
 
Sunday, December 17
Christmas Cantata with the Morning Choir
9:30 and 11:00 a.m. worship in the Sanctuary
"In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum"
     by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 
Sunday, December 17
Christmas Musical: Children's and Youth Choirs
10:30 a.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Where's the Newborn King?
     by Anna Laura Page and Jean Anne Shafferma
 
Friday, December 22
John W. W. Sherer, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
 
Saturday, December 23
Christmas with Tower Brass
5:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Suggested donation of $20 at the door

Friday, December 29
Beena David Quartet
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
 
A complete concert schedule is available online. 
 
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volunteer Volunteer and Donation Needs
There are several ways to get involved in the mission and ministry of Fourth Church. See below for just some of the details!

Current Volunteer Needs
Servers for the congregational Christmas dinner (volunteers needed 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Monday, December 25)
 
Hosts on January weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for the Calvin College January Series shown in the Page Smith Room 
 
Leaders for 2018 youth mission trips; details and a sign-up form are online at www.bit.ly/youthtrips2018 
 

Current Donation Needs
Individually packaged snack items (5,000 per month) for Fourth Church Meals Ministry bag lunches and Chicago Lights Elam Davies Social Service Center emergency snack packs
 
Men's clothing (all sizes) for guests of the Chicago Lights Elam Davies Social Service Center
 
Large paper grocery bags for use in the Social Service Center Food Pantry (four grocery bags are needed for every guest who visits the Chicago Lights Elam Davies Social Service Center Food Pantry) 


Unless otherwise noted, to sign up for volunteer opportunities or to learn more about them--as well as additional volunteer opportunities--stop by Coffee Hour on Sunday morning or email Robert Crouch, Director of Volunteer Ministry.
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